Screen-door.



A. PATTON.

SCREEN DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1914.

Patented Dec. .22. 1914.

Nun coo e0 AIIEXANDEB YATTON, OF JEANNETTE. PENNSYLVANIA.

SCREEN-noon.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

Application filed J'u1y27, 1914. Serial No. 853,437.

To all tclzom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, ALEXANDER PATION, a citizen of the UnitedStates ofAmerica,

residing at Jeannette, in the county of Westmoreland and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inScreen-Doors, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in screen doors, and isdesigned especially to provide a collapsible or knock down door, thatmay be compactly arranged for storage purposes.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a sectional hingeddoor. which is furnished with simple and inexpensive means by which thedoor sections may be held in rigid relationship when the door isperforming its usual functions, but which may be knocked down and packedinto small compass in order that it may be stored away without occupyingmuch space.

The invention consists in a screen door.

made up of foldable sections, and a member adapted to engage all ofthese sections and hold them in rigid relationship, as will be morespecifically set forth in the following showing the sections of the doorfolded upon themselves so that the door may be stored away in smallcompass. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a batten which is employed tohold the door sections in rigid relationship.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, as shown in the drawings, Ihave illustrated the door as a screen door, butit will be understoodthat other types of doors may be employed in connection with myinvention if desired, and I do not wish to con drawings I have line thedescription and claim of my invention herein to a screen door. Y

In Fig. 1 the door is shown'in operative position, and it will be seenthat it comprises the two lower panelsor sections 1 and 2 which arehinged together at 3-43 Two upper sections 4. and 5 are also hin ed at6-(3, and the sect-ion 4 1s hinged to the sec tion 2 at 1 -7, butitvwill be observed that To hold all of the sections in rigidrelationship with each other, I employ a batten orstrip of wood 8 whichis perforated at 9 forscrews 10, and by means of these screws.

as rigid and inflexible as the usually constructed door. But in additionto these features the door posses es the meritorious feature of beingcapable of packing in small space.

In Fig. 3. the door sections are shown in folded position. After thescrews 10 have been removed and the batten 8 displaced. the sections maybe folded upon their respective hinges. Thus, the section 1 is foldedover on top of section'Q. Section 5 is folded over on top of section 4,and then the two sections 4 and 5 are folded under in Fig. 1. and on tothe under side of section 2.

and then the folded door has the appearance as shown in Fig. 3. and itmay be stored away in the cellar or attic during the winter time whennot in use, and itwill occupy but comparatively little space.

From the above description taken in connection with my drawings it isevident that I have provided a screen door which possemes themeritorious features as pointed out as the objects of my invention.

Having thus fully described my inventhe section 5 is not hinged to thesection 1.

tion, what I claim as new and desire to sesingle horizontally extendingbatten, and 10 cure byLetters Patent, is means for attaching said battento all of Thecombination in a foldable door made said sections. I up offour sections the sections of the upper In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature pair and the sections oi the lower pair of in presence of twowitnesses.

said sections being hinged together on a ver- ALEXANDER PATTON.

rival axis. ohe section of the upper pair of Witnesses: sections beinglunged to one of the lower WILLIAM I-Lxw ns; sections to swmg' on ahorizontal am's, a' ROBERT Jonson.

